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World Congress 2024 • Aug 20, 2024 • Session details

Reliable scalability: How Amazon.com scales on AWS

Florian Mair

Amazon's early monolith once bottlenecked crucial deployments. Discover how their pivot to serverless microservices and cell-based isolation now handles 126 million requests per second.

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Early monolithic backend architecture at Amazon

How Amazon's early single-binary architecture created deployment bottlenecks that required architectural shifts.

#2 about 3 min

Transitioning from a monolith to service-oriented architecture

How deployment delays in monolithic application binaries drove the extraction of business logic into independent services.

#3 about 1 min

Scaling database infrastructure for massive retail events

How managing millions of concurrent requests during major retail events demonstrates the need for highly scalable database systems.

#4 about 2 min

Defining reliability through the AWS well-architected framework

How managing interconnected service architectures requires applying a recognized reliability framework to ensure consistent system performance.

#5 about 5 min

Modernizing queries using microservices and federated schemas

How replacing monolithic virtual machines with specialized functions and a federated schema streamlines complex data queries.

#6 about 2 min

Improving service ownership with decentralized autonomous teams

How assigning end-to-end operational ownership of individual microservices to autonomous engineering teams drastically reduces operational issues.

#7 about 3 min

Mitigating cold starts in serverless functions using provisioned concurrency

How scaling serverless environments to thousands of requests per second requires provisioned concurrency to eliminate latency spikes.

#8 about 2 min

Protecting application endpoints with web firewalls and edge networks

How combining web application firewalls and global content delivery networks reduces bot traffic and lowers latency.

#9 about 2 min

Structuring warehouse systems for global fulfillment network operations

How operating massive logistics centers requires deploying thousands of localized microservices for inventory management and robotics.

#10 about 5 min

Isolating distributed system failures using cell-based architecture compartments

How isolating regional deployments into separate cloud accounts prevents localized system failures from causing global outages.

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